The K-thing(s) and more.

February 20th, 2008

For god knows which time in my life, I woke up in a different country and I didn’t even move one single centimetre away from where I’d been before. I woke up in the same bed, surrounded by same posters of kittens and Kitten and same stuffed animals, there was the same pile of handwritten poems on the night table and the same old pen I love to write with. But all those things, together with me amongst them were now a part of something that got torn apart…again.

It’s alright, it’s alright
If the news says half the truth
Hearing what we want is the secret of eternal youth
It’s alright, it’s alright,
If the planet splits in three…

Sometimes it was the name that was changing, sometimes it was the territory, sometimes both. If this was Michael Ende’s Neverending Story, this’d probably be the part when a huge NOTHING is trying to eat everything, before Bastian comes. But this time there won’t be Bastian, for sure, there won’t be Moonchild. It’s more like Momo, where mysterious men in grey, with weird-looking cigarettes are walking around, taking the last bits of imagination from people’s minds and turning them into something they never wanted to become.

Given the fact how uneducated many people around the world, especially in rich countries are nowadays, I can’t explain them that I was born in a 22 million people country and that I live in a 6 million people country now (I think it’s 6?!); without them thinking I’m on some synthetic drug. They don’t need to worry about it anyway, when life is all about spending money on things one doesn’t even need, looking up to celebrities and trying to have some sort of an image. Or, it’s all about spending money on celebrities. Or…whatever.

It’s alright, it’s alright
Cause the system never fails
The good guys are in power
And the bad guys are in jail

If this was The Simpsons Movie, there’d be Tom Hanks describing how a new canyon is going to be formed in the middle of Europe. And this is the kind of morbid thinking that was in my mind in March 1999 as well, right before the big guys fucked the shit out of us (pardon my language). I was reading 100 Years Of Solitude and the end of the book got me so scared that my first-ever air emergency sirens two days later literally made me think we’re all going to die within a minute. My dad then told me that “every generation has to go through at least one war”. I asked him if that’s the case with people in e.g. Greenland as well. I don’t even want to ask him if his opinion has changed in the past nine years. Perhaps it hasn’t.

I guess many things fell apart in the last 10 months. And in all of them, one side totally profited, while the other remained screwed for the time being, although, by all possible means, that side was meant to be the one that’s better, stronger, smarter. It’s weird how I draw parallels among all those things. It’s weird that bad sides of the story always begin with the same letter.

I could’ve put Amazon affiliate links in all these book and movie titles, but that’d be too me, too sarcastic and thought-provoking [in reference to the third paragraph] and I’m not in the mood for sarcasm now, I’m 100% serious this time.

If we forget about them don’t worry
If they forget about us then hurry
How about the people who don’t matter anymore?

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12 Responses to “The K-thing(s) and more.”

  1. just me... on February 20, 2008 3:55 am

    I felt so sad when I read your text, but at the same time I also felt ashamed, I don’t know why, perhaps because I’m weird, or more probably because I come from one of the countries where people are uneducated and where they don’t need to worry about anything except money and celebrities… I just hope I’m not as them…
    At least, all that’s happening in your country really worries me.

    When I see all that, I tell myself that the world is really rotten and it will never change, and I just can’t believe that humans are such stupid to not worry about it.

    I hope that my comment won’t be too ridiculous, because I don’t want to appear as a silly teenager who only cares about his minor personal problems (as a lot of people as I know…).
    I must be dumb, but I don’t manage to express myself in these situations, and this really bothers me.

  2. Rika on February 20, 2008 8:42 am

    I can never fully understand your confusion, as this thing is not as personal matter to me, as it is to you. I find it sort of surreal, that most people in my country appear to think anything is good, if a group of people arrange a celebration of it.

  3. Mira Buva on February 20, 2008 8:51 pm

    People just don’t get it. YOU CAN’T TRUST EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON THE NEWS!

    You just have to educate yourself, be open minded and be there (here) to see before you form your opinion.

    Is this so hard to do? I guess yes.

  4. Michael on February 21, 2008 12:42 am

    I believe your father was correct in a way. It’s not that every generation has to go through a war but that the frequency of wars is within that range — especially for developing countries.

    Even Korea went through several civil wars and was even invaded by Japan which made them stronger and advanced in several fields.

  5. Ciel on February 21, 2008 12:05 pm

    yeah it’s strange world.. maybe your father is right.. i don’t know. i don’t know why people deal with everything this way. why they can’t give peace a chance… but maybe i should have been born in the sixties ;)

  6. Destiny on February 21, 2008 6:19 pm

    Almost poetic, but hard to understand a bit… but this is what the world is. It’s hard to live in something that is so much bigger and beyond us.

  7. Vera on February 21, 2008 10:03 pm

    I was looking at the news just now, and they were showing that in Belgrade the police had to intervene to stop demonstrations. I hope you’re OK… it looked really bad.

    I don’t really know what to comment, because on the one hand I understand wanting to get separated, but on the other hand it’s not good to keep letting every idiot form their own country.

    Ah, it’s complicated. And my interest in politics is almost nonexistent… so I’m probably not the best person to offer help. I hope nothing dangerous will happen to you though. Take care.

  8. Mira Buva on February 22, 2008 2:14 am

    Iva is alright, those riots in out lovely Belgrade were as not as bad as some news reported. Sure, it was bad, but this city has seen worse. They (journalists) just made a big deal because US embassy was attacked.

    Much worse thing is Kosovo independence, it will bring no good to anybody, not even Albanians from Kosovo, who are not really independent, they are under government of EU… heck, they are under US government, we all know it.

  9. Kendra on February 22, 2008 6:45 am

    This post is definitely thought-provoking. I had to read it twice to come up with a response.

    I often feel sorry for people whose lives revolve around their favourite shoes and celebrities. People ask me, ‘Would you ever want to be someone famous?’, and I say that I would most definitely not. These days, people just want someone to make them feel better about themselves. I suppose it makes people feel safe that there are others that are less fortunate than them. There’s a theory that revolves around that idea, but I can’t remember what it’s called.

    But it’s true; people don’t know a lot about what is going on around them. I admit that I’m very ignorant. Most of the time I find out what’s going on by walking into my social studies class and talking about what others know about current events. It’s sad, it really is. I need to work on being more aware of things that are important.

  10. Mira Buva on February 22, 2008 11:34 am

    Being ignorant is not the worst thing here. It’s the attention we didn’t want. Actually, some of the people who are “less fortunate” are not “less fortunate” because they didn’t have luck to be born somewhere else where it’s all great, but because “the big guys” made us less fortunate.

    If you ask me, and I believe many people all over the Balkans would agree, we just want to be left alone. If we’re gonna fight, let it be our war. America has its problems, other countries have their own shit- so why don’t they just leave us alone? Please, US/NATO/EU/whoeveryouare, please, stop “helping” us.

  11. Sigg3 on February 22, 2008 7:49 pm

    Nice post. You have my sincere sympathy.. Let’s hope this thing doesn’t ignite any more than a rather peaceful demonstration (1 demonstrator died from fire wounds apparently RIP).

    As for the “help”; some of it is actually meant as help.
    Other parts of it is what power’s all about; more power.

  12. Fran on February 22, 2008 7:57 pm

    I hope you never think of me as one of those ignorant and uneducated people whose only purpose in life is to look up to celebrities and spending money and whatever. I saw the news and my thoughts went out to you immediately. I just hope you’re ok and your family and you get through this alright.
    It’s a weird, weird world. :(

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